25 Gen Z/Gen Alpha Beliefs That Older Generations Think Are Total Bull—

Every procreation puts its unsocial stamp connected the world, bringing caller ideas to the array and pushing the boundaries of society.

1. "Thinking that their boundaries are different people's responsibility. It's their work to support their boundaries and intelligence health, not everyone else's."

2. "That being a cynic is the aforesaid arsenic being a captious thinker."

—u/Gr0zzz

3. "That clout equals value. No! Validation is cheaper than ramen, and it doesn't provender your soul."

–u/ClairSunset

4. "That dating apps privation you to find someone."

5. "I thatch seventh graders. Most of them deliberation they'll beryllium making $200k per year. They can’t adjacent work astatine people level."

—u/Moonwrath8

6. "That influencers unrecorded the lives they post."

8. "Believing tolerance is synonymous with unconditional acceptance."

–u/D3us-Ecks

9. "Saying that punctuation and grammar don't matter. The deficiency of penning skills is appalling. I was erstwhile called a 'bigot' for saying that radical can, and will, marque judgments astir your quality and instrumentality you little earnestly for atrocious writing."

10. "As it relates to labels, it seems similar for older millennials, we were mostly taught that pigeonholing radical into arbitrary labels and stereotypes is not bully and that everyone is unique. Later generations continued with the thought of an infinite rainbow of diversity, but wanted to statement each and each 1 of them. To proceed with the rainbow analogy, it's similar 1 radical saying, 'I'm neither greenish nor blue, I'm conscionable me!' and different being similar 'My hex codification is #2CC1C9.'"

—u/Excelius

11. "Thinking that each conflict is bad. Some conflict is bully for you and helps you turn arsenic a person. It besides makes you overmuch much interesting. There is specified a happening arsenic excessively much, though.

12. "That Anne Frank didn’t beryllium and Helen Keller was a fraud/hoax. Straight from my college-age Gen Z niece. She saw it connected TikTok, don’t you know?"

—u/LiluLay

"I’ve travel crossed a LOT of kids who judge that Helen Keller didn’t truly beryllium oregon that she was faking it. It boggles the mind."

—u/Cap-n-Trips

"Not lone did Helen Keller person a afloat and meaningful life, she was precise politically active: suffragist, socialist, cofounder of the ACLU, feminist, and more. She died successful 1968 astatine property 87!"

—u/frightnin-lichen

13. "That rights and freedoms older generations person fought for can't beryllium taken away."

14. "They deliberation that they someway person this wealthiness of accusation and brainpower that nary erstwhile generations had. Anyone nether the property of 45 has had entree to the net since they were successful precocious school. If you privation to speech astir Boomers, sure, but if you deliberation you are someway intuitively smarter than your millennial uncle, you’d beryllium wrong. The arrogance of immoderate younger radical I've worked with is disconnected the charts, to the constituent that I can’t adjacent thatch them what they request to know. Then they neglect and kick they aren’t getting promoted."

—u/Single-Actuary4447

15. "Being an 'alpha' volition get you laid. The boys request to get disconnected the algorithm and get outside."

—u/Fit_Yogurtcloset_291

16. "That each Boomers are MAGA, oregon that they 'ruined the world' connected purpose, arsenic if they weren’t scrambling to past successful a satellite and nine that was destroyed by 2 satellite wars."

17. "I taught journalism arsenic an adjunct. I had students kick that I didn’t springiness them trigger warnings connected the syllabus oregon pass them up of clip if I switched up the acquisition plans for breaking news. One pupil insisted that the last task was excessively triggering — they did not notation that to maine astatine immoderate clip during the semester, arsenic definite assignments built up to it — and wrote a whiny email to the section caput erstwhile I failed them."

"My favourite complaint: Students were not allowed to usage first-person POV. It was a quality penning class, requiring a deficiency of opinion. A pupil told maine I didn’t recognize however her procreation got their quality and that I should beryllium looking astatine Tumblr alternatively of newspapers and magazines. It was a quality penning class!"

—u/reporterbabe

18. "They DGAF astir the connection no. They deliberation it’s conscionable the different idiosyncratic trying to manipulate you."

—u/1961tracy

19. "Thinking that radical with the loudest voices correspond the radical arsenic a whole."

20. "One misstep oregon misspoken connection requires idiosyncratic to beryllium 'canceled' and their lives burned to the ground. There's a immense quality betwixt idiosyncratic being bigoted and pathological, versus idiosyncratic making a one-off mistake."

21. "Buying into 'hustle culture.' It's conscionable a mode for companies to marque much wealth and maltreatment their employees more."

—u/djlittlehorse

22. And finally, "Acting similar it's not weird to conscionable respire into the telephone erstwhile idiosyncratic calls and expecting the caller to accidental hullo archetypal due to the fact that they're 'the ones who wanted to talk.'"

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